“I mounted some plastic on two tins of sardines with which she can go to school with,” her father told Syria Charity.

“My heart suffers when I see her crawling in front of friends, while they play and run.”

The photos of Maya walking around the dusty camp are heartbreaking, but it is clear the homemade prosthetics have improved her life dramatically.

Mohammed said he dreams that one day he will be able to see his daughter walk properly, but for now it seems the tin cans will have to do.

Most people that hear Maya’s story would want to help in anyway they could, but unfortunately her family doesn’t have the resources to call on help from the public.

Maya’s father was also born without legs. Aaref Watad/AFPSource:Whimn

Unfortunately the reality is it’s easier to give money to a stranger who wants help making a potato salad than it is to help a little refugee girl who needs prosthetic legs.

Websites such as GoFundMe are a wonderful way for people to raise money quickly for those in need. But because these types of crowd-funding pages are readily available to anyone who has access to the internet, it means there are people who think they can abuse it.

So instead of people being able to donate their money to people like Maya they are met with countless campaigns asking strangers to chuck in money for things such as a “spiritual journey” around the world, funding a lavish destination wedding because “it’s our big day and we deserve it” or one even asking for $1 million to prove the Earth is flat.

I wish this was a joke, but it’s not. Picture: GoFundMeSource:Whimn

But what is even worse than the people starting these inane campaigns are the people who are actually giving them money.

A self-described “spiritual teacher, life coach, reiki and crystal healer” who desperately needed a life-changing spiritual holiday actually raised $1220 ($A1640). More than 80 different people actually sent her money.

Hundreds of families arrived to Darat Azza, northwest of Aleppo, on October 8, fleeing from fighting in Iraq and eastern Syria. In this video, buses of people arrive at a reception center run by Saad Charity in Darat Azza. A worker with Saad Charity says most of them are women and children. In a second video, a man describes the fear that people experienced crossing from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria through territory held by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State forces. There were airstrikes he said. Local news outlets said more than 380,000 people have left villages and towns around Deir Ezzor as a result of fighting between Syrian Democratic Forces, the Syrian government and their allies, and Islamic State. Airstrikes have hit multiple towns south of Deir Ezzor in the past month as Syrian government forces and their allies fight with Islamic State for control of the area Credit: YouTube/SMART News Agency via Storyful